“When you sit and watch the film with an audience, the focus groups and the cards and all of that is the less what you're worrying about. When you watch a film with an audience you see what is working and what's not working.” FilmWatchesWorryAudienceFocusGroupsCardsFocus Groups Author:Christopher McQuarrie
“As much as I love my family, I enjoy it when the house is empty, because then I know I'm truly alone, as we all are on the planet, after all. Every atom in us is originally from a star. And during my moments of aloneness, I'm most mindful of that; that I'm just another group of matter randomly but wonderfully arranged. That's when I feel my immortality.” KnowsFeelsMatterMomentsHouseStarsEnjoyGroupsPlanetsMy FamilyEmptyImmortalityAtomsLove My FamilyI Love My Family Author:George Carlin
“America is a melting pot for all different groups of people, historically. And it's rare that the story of all of these people will be told in the history books. So I always felt I had to find out my history for myself and research my roots.” PeopleBookDifferentStoriesAmericaFeltGroupsResearchRootsPotMeltingHistory BooksMelting Pot Author:Nas
“Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.” PeopleKnowsStoriesSocialJusticeGroupsMovementSittingSocial JusticeDiscoveringLife StorySmall Groups Author:Gloria Steinem
“Every revolution begins as consciousness because some group of people has to imagine change. You have to have the idea of change or at least have a hope before you can proceed. And that stage goes very quickly because a contagion of consciousness is within your control. But when you get to the stage of institutional change, it becomes a much slower process.” PeopleIdeasProcessConsciousnessImagineGroupsStageRevolutionContagion Author:Gloria Steinem
“If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.” IfsGivingHumansMayIdeasHouseParentGroupsOkayRaisedCooks Author:Gloria Steinem
“I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs.” DifferentBeliefReligiousGroupsAspectThreadConnectingReligious BeliefBelief SystemsDifferent Beliefs Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I'm sentimental about Jesus on the cross. Jesus was a Jew, and also I believe he was a catalyst, and I think he offended people because his message was to love your neighbour as yourself; in other words, no one is better than somebody else. He embraced all people, whether it was a beggar on the street or a prostitute, and he admonished a group of Jews who were not observing the precepts of the Torah. So he rattled a lot of people's cages.” PeopleThinkingBelieveJesusI BelieveGroupsStreetsLove YouMessagesCrossesJewSentimentalCagesOffendedObservingNeighbourBeggarCatalystTorah Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Aspire to do better. Instead of being the leader of the group, be the little person.” LittlesPersonsLeaderGroupsAspire Author:Jake M. Johnson
“In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.” WayFeelsLittlesCareMy OwnGroupsPushingWho CaresEssays Author:David Shields
“I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.” Has BeensPoliticalBeliefGroupsCriminalsLabelsActivistOutspoken Author:Assata Shakur
“I think that with the Internet, it has given a lot of people the opportunity to get themselves out there to the masses. But it's easy to group everyone that's on the Internet together. I try to cross and jump around between genres and different styles, kind of find my own niche.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindDifferentTogetherOpportunityGivenEasyMy OwnGroupsStyleInternetMassCrossesGenreNicheDifferent Styles Author:Mac Miller
“For me, the most gratifying projects are ones that have the potential to bring people together - to overcome differences among various groups, and to spark dialogue.” PeopleTogetherDifferencesGroupsProjectsOvercomingVariousDialogueSparks Author:Nancy Kates
“I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it. I think we ask too many questions of ourselves. We make too much importance of stuff. But I do say to actors when I have taught in classes, or when I sometimes do a talk to a group. I'll say, “If I never acted again, the world wouldn't stop, nor would it stop if I didn't stop acting. That's how important it is. I know it [seems] important when you're young. But I say, “Lighten up. Don't take it all so seriously.” All the gurus and teachers will take your money and run.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldImportantSometimesSeemsRunningYoungActorsAsksStuffEnjoyActingClassToo MuchTeacherGroupsTaughtImportanceGuru Author:Anthony Hopkins
“The whole history of the 20th century is a history of resistance groups which are either nationalist or, in large parts of the Muslim word, religious groups.” WholeReligiousGroupsCenturyResistance20th Century Author:Tariq Ali
“Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.” IdeasGuyGroupsEasierStandardsSenior Author:George Bailey
“It is difficult to recognize true love, the one which you feel for the other person, when for years the girls, even more than one per night, after concerts would sneak in our beds and were willing to do everything - group sex also - just to stay with Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot.” FeelsYearsPersonsNightGirlSexDifficultGroupsWillingBedRedHotConcertsSneakRed HotSneak In Author:Anthony Kiedis
“When people think you are speaking against them as a group, they try to shut it down out here.” PeopleThinkingTryingGroups Author:Steve Harvey
“The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.” SpiritDealsGroupsIndustryEasierAccomplishGenerosityInstillMovie IndustryGenerosity Of Spirit Author:John Travolta
“I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.” ThinkingHappensGroupsThings HappenSolo Author:Lauryn Hill
“A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation.” SelfLife IsIndividualNationsGroupsNonviolenceExaminationPurificationSelf-examination Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“If I'm out to dinner with a group of friends, and somebody offers to pay for the check, I immediately reach for my wallet. Inside is a note that says, "Say thanks!"” IfsHumorFunnyPayGroupsOffersNotesDinnerChecksThanksWalletsGroup Of Friends Author:Mitch Hedberg
“As a group, we are stronger than we are as individuals. We start to think we want everything for ourselves and we don't want to help anybody else. We want to succeed, but we don't want anybody else to succeed, because we want to be the winner.” ThinkingWantHelpingIndividualGroupsSucceedStrongerWinner Author:George Lucas
“John Dorschner, one of our staff writers here at Tropic magazine at The Miami Herald, who is a good friend of mine and an excellent journalist, but a raving liberal, wrote a story about a group that periodically pops up saying that they're going to start their own country or start their own planet or go back to their original planet, or whatever. They were going to "create a libertarian society" on a floating platform in the Caribbean somewhere. I know there's never going to be a country on a floating anything, but if they want to talk about it, that's great.” IfsKnowsWantCountryStoriesGroupsMinesPlanetsOriginalsPopsLibertarianMagazinesJournalistExcellentPlatformsStaffGood FriendFloatingMiamiCaribbean Author:Dave Barry
“I don't like anything unsigned in a newspaper that purports to be the opinion of some group if we don't know who the group is. It's laughable to say that The Miami Herald's editorials or any newspaper's editorials represent any views other than those of the people writing them, so why don't we tell everybody who they are?” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingViewsOpinionGroupsNewspapersMiamiEditorialsLaughable Author:Dave Barry
“At the time of starting this band I was listening to tons of death metal. However, the bands that made me want to be in a band to begin with were groups like Korn, Deftones, Slayer, Sepultura... everything that my dad would buy and bring home to me and my brother saying 'Hey, listen to this'.” WantMadeHomeGroupsBrotherListeningDadBandMy DadStartingHeyMy BrotherMetalsSlayerDeath Metal Author:Mitch Lucker
“Sociologically, large groups of people don't generally have massive changes in their belief instantaneously.” PeopleBeliefGroupsMassiveLarge GroupsMassive Change Author:Rob Bell
“I LOVE WAL-MART. I CONSIDER MY JOKES TO BE VERY JEUVINILLE. STUFF A 14 YEAR OLD WOULD LAUGH AT BECAUSE THATS THE SENCE OF HUMOR I HAVE. ALL THE STUFF I TALK ABOUT MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR CHURCH GROUPS HOWEVER WAL-MART AINT SUNDAY SCHOOL. AS LONG AS I DIDNT USE OFFENSIVE FOUL LANGUAGE I KNEW ID BE FINE. WAL-MART GETS IT, THATS WHY THEY BLOW AWAY THE COMPETITION. BESIDES ITS THERE STORE THEY CAN DO WHAT THEY WANT. THATS AMERICA BABY!” WantYearsMayLongUseSchoolAmericaLanguageStuffCan DoChurchLaughingGroupsBabyFineJokesCompetitionBlowStoresAppropriateSundayOffensiveFoulSunday SchoolFoul Language Author:Larry the Cable Guy
“The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.” LongLastsGroupsGood TimesJungle Author:Levon Helm
“As an artist - I'm sure like most creative people - you have a kind of board of directors that you make your work for. It's a group of people that you have, these friends, and you want to know what they think. In a weird way, you're making the work for them.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantKindArtistCreativeGroupsDirectorsBoardsCreative PeopleBoard Of Directors Author:Robert Longo
“Children that play outside develop better problem solving skills and have a stronger ability to work within a group.” ChildrenPlayProblemAbilityGroupsSkillsStrongerProblem Solving Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.” PeopleSelfSchoolGuyTeacherGroupsTaughtBandHigh SchoolProducersJailGraduatesSelf Taught Author:Billy Joel
“What we are determined to do is to take more people from Syria and that war-torn part of the world as a response to this particular crisis, but again I stress we are taking people from camps because the last thing we want to do is to encourage and reward people smuggling.We are taking people from camps and we are taking family groups; our focus will be on family groups, from persecuted minorities.” PeopleWorldWantWarLastsFocusGroupsParticularStressCrisisResponseRewardsDeterminedMinoritiesCampsSyriaTornPersecutedSmuggling Author:Tony Abbott
“I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took group photographs of all the criminals and lawbreakers in the Ronald Reagan administration.” PeopleFunnyGroupsHavensPhotographCriminalsAdministrationReaganomics Author:George Carlin
“For most of human history, we lived communally in groups, and it was part of the security and nature of groups to help each other and groom each other.” HumansHelpingGroupsSecurityHuman HistoryHelping Each Other Author:Patch Adams
“I went to sexaholics anonymous for six months. For research. I wanted to see the structure of the groups, how they were conducted, and what the atmosphere was like, and also to be able to describe the people as human beings, rather than as the dirty jokes that they are in our culture.” PeopleHumansAbleWantedCultureHuman BeingsGroupsMonthsSixJokesResearchStructureAtmosphereDirtySix MonthsDirty Jokes Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“In my group of friends, I was always the one who remembered everything. The stories, the boys my friends and I dated, all the details. So I think a part of me was always filing them away, although at the time I wasn't sure why.” ThinkingStoriesBoysGroupsMy FriendsDetailsRememberedFilingGroup Of Friends Author:Sarah Dessen
“Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingI CanOrderSexInterestSupportGroupsResearchPhonesIllnessTopicsForumsSupport Groups Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I was raised Christian after age 5, but I didn't really understand it until high school. A friend of mine invited me to his youth group. There I heard the gospel, understood it, and accepted it.” AgeSchoolChristianHeardGroupsYouthMinesUnderstoodHigh SchoolRaisedAcceptedInvited Author:Francis Chan
“Race should not be used to claim privileges and rights for one group, exclusively, which are denied other different groups. Then that is an illegitimate use of race.” ShouldDifferentUseUsedRaceRightsGroupsClaimsPrivilegeDenied Author:Desmond Tutu
“We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be.” WayHelpingIndividualGroupsBest WayBeing The Best Author:Ray Bradbury
“So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.” PeopleYearsKindTwoMatterHardShowsArtistGroupsParticularNo Matter WhatMadCloudsRageIgnorantTwo YearsShow BusinessBeing An Artist Author:Chris Rock
“I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded lots of podcasts. I bickered with hate groups. I criticized critics. I banged pots together. I did everything I could to raise awareness without raising any money to do so.” MadeWantedTogetherHateBitsGroupsAwarenessRaisesCriticsSpendingPotAdsHate Groups Author:Kevin Smith
“Television is fantastic because you get to follow a group of characters over time, and their stories can enrich and surprise you. And you get to work with a group of people over time as well, which can be very satisfying with the right group.” PeopleWellsCharacterStoriesGroupsTelevisionSurpriseFantasticSatisfying Author:Liz Tuccillo
“The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chief boy - a girl that all the other girls of that age looked up to and imitated and a boy that all the boys looked up to and imitated. I realized that if I got them on my side and exclusively taught them for a couple of weeks, maybe for the first full term, then I wouldn't have any trouble. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.” IfsThinkingFirstsChildrenAgeGirlSidesTermMistakeClassBoysTeacherTroubleGroupsWeekTaughtCoupleSittingInfiniteIndividualityI RealizedChiefsRangeBossSitting DownOther Girl Author:Philip Pullman
“The seven white notes on the piano - each section of the piece (there are 12 sections) is five of those seven white notes. If you calculate it, there are 21 groups of five notes in any group of seven notes. And although there are 12 sections, this piece actually uses nine of those groups because some of the sections repeat earlier ones. So that's the formula. It's very simple as a way of generating something. It's my inner minimalist.” IfsWayUseSimpleWhiteFivePiecesGroupsNotesSevenNinePianoRepeatsFormulasSectionsMinimalist Author:Brian Eno
“The English are such a frightened, nervous, insecure group of people - they no longer rule the world!” PeopleWorldGroupsNervousFrightenedInsecure Author:Terry Gilliam
“I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody takes religion as seriously as we do here. We have a free market in religion. The religious groups are competing with each other.” ThinkingChurchReligiousGroupsIronyAmerican HistoryCompetingFree Market Author:Eric Foner
“I think the Jews are an amazing group of people and their survival is amazing.” PeopleThinkingGroupsSurvivalJew Author:Erica Jong
“It doesn't do you any service to demonize any group of people. It's much better to try and understand from the inside.” PeopleTryingGroups Author:Alan Moore